LOUISIANA STATE PRODUCING CRUDE OIL WELLS
Excluding OCS
DATE		NORTH		SOUTH		OFFSHORE		TOTAL
1957		10,686		8,817		N/A		19,503
1958		10,950		9,541		N/A		20,491
1959		11,380		10,454		N/A		21,834
1960		11,501		11,173		N/A		22,674
1961		11,790		12,202		N/A		23,993
1962		12,192		13,344		N/A		25,536
1963		12,833		14,144		N/A		26,977
1964		13,901		13,661		1,265		28,826
1965		14,505		11,558		3,938		30,001
1966		14,419		12,165		4,330		30,915
1967		14,191		12,183		4,677		31,051
1968		13,856		11,698		4,767		30,321
1969		13,670		11,131		4,954		29,756
1970		13,166		10,363		1,179		24,707
1971		12,889		9,626		1,107		23,623
1972		12,475		8,912		1,048		22,436
1973		11,698		8,249		1,025		20,972
1974		11,984		8,262		985		21,230
1975		12,259		8,094		936		21,288
1976		12,393		7,730		1,073		21,196
1977		12,915		7,444		1,067		21,425
1978		13,019		7,219		1,086		21,324
1979		12,961		6,859		1,078		20,898
1980		13,981		6,832		1,073		21,885
1981		15,084		6,777		1,105		22,966
1982		15,540		6,608		1,112		23,259
1983		16,299		6,374		1,037		23,710
1984		17,544		6,300		1,038		24,882
1985		18,794		6,223		1,014		26,031
1986		19,346		6,061		1,001		26,408
1987		18,630		5,768		945		25,343
1988		17,953		5,698		964		24,615
1989		16,849		5,474		927		23,250
1990		17,369		5,215		906		23,490
1991		17,731		5,143		868		23,742
1992		17,449		5,155		842		23,446
1993		16,810		5,015		814		22,640
1994		15,904		4,682		805		21,392
1995		15,260		4,451		769		20,479
1996		15,148		4,295		719		20,163
1997		14,573		4,165		619		20,358
1998		13,975		3,962		546		18,484
1999		13,747		3,971		546		18,264
2000*		16,795		3,914		408		21,117
2001*		16,494		4,257		393		21,144
2002*		16,531		4,071		423		21,026
2003*		16,516		3,583		467		20,566
2004*		16,148		3,485		462		20,095
2005*		17,153		3,648		317		21,117
2006*		17,072		3,615		241		20,928
2007*		16,994		3,711		262		20,966
2008*		N/A		N/A		N/A		21,146
2009*		N/A		N/A		N/A		20,852
2010*		N/A		N/A		N/A		20,007
2011*		14,333		4,045		411		18,789
2012*		14,217		4,275		436		18,928
2013*		16,691		3,646		240		20,577
2014*		12,557		3,156		228		16,941
2015*		13,007		4,151		447		17,605
2016*		12,908		3,743		477		17,128
2017*		12,433		3,490		407		16,330
		Page revised	22-Dec-17		-	data available through Dec 15, 2017
*	Producing oil and gas well data since 2000 reflect changes due to modifications in the reporting system by the Department of Natural Resources Office of Conservation. The new data for oil and natural gas producing wells count them as productive if they had any production in the month, previous system counted only the producing wells at the end of the month. The new reporting system should produce more accurate and timely data. The Technology Assessment Division is not the source of these data sets, but merely reports data provided to us by the Office of Conservation. However, we understand that users of our time series data need consistency over time, but due to lack of accurate information the time series has been adjusted only backwards to 2000 using the new system. Other factors that affected the big increase on wells numbers are the big jump on energy prices around 2000, and the inactive wells